Ubuntu – Two Weeks Later

07Jul08

The Good (things that didn’t work very well for me last time I tried):

• All of my usb devices were recognized straight away
• Connecting to wireless networks is effortless
• Linux Skype now has video calls
• Eclipse works with all of my favourite add-ons
• Google Earth
• My ATI graphics card
• Bluetooth

The Bad:

• Eclipse (never known for its legs) is even slower than on windows
• Fonts still look a bit skanky without a lot of messing around
• OpenOffice still butchers five out of every ten .doc files I try opening

The Ugly:

• It took me about three days of command line hacking to use dial-up via my 3G phone

Summary:

Still not perfect but I think for me at least it now has the edge on Windows.

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